ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,762, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Rotatably supported sensor housing" was invented by Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Raghuraman Surineedi (Dearborn, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.) and Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a base. The assembly housing includes a sensor housing rotatably supported by the base and having a sensor window. The sensor housing defines a passage that extends through the sensor housing from an inlet vent at a le...